UNSWICT - Module A Technology as a Teaching Tool

Technology as a Teaching Tool
Technology enables teachers to create engaging and highly effective learning objects. They can use WEB 20 tools to enrich the learning and encourage students to use a plethora of tools to investigate, research, collaborate and create.

Deliver New Information or Concepts
To deliver information or introduce new concepts you can use:

Power point with embedded audio and video clips converted to a PDF. e.g.
Slide Shows or short films
1984 – An Introduction to context and text.pdf
- Details
- Download
- 1 MB
Podcasts
OneNote: Share all resources with your class
Screencast- o -matic: Create videos for your class and flip the learning - screencast
Explain Everything: An App that allows you to use powerpoint and record your voice.

Sharing with the class

Google docs and Google Drive
Dropbox
Haiku Deck
Keynote

Access Effective ICT Sites

EDSITEment - a raft of lesson plans with resources: Lesson plans
Reading Australia great teaching resources Reading Australia
New Teachers' resources: New teacher resources
Tutorials on using Google tools for teaching: Google tools
Teacher Tube: Find teacher created videos
School Tube: Teacher and student videos
TED talks: Ted talks
Snag free films: Snag films
Cool Tools for Schools - a amazing range of sites to access: Cool Tools
Edmodo - create a virtual classroom: Edmodo
Save YouTube clips to use in the classroom: Save YouTube
Join IWBNet to access great resources: IWBNET
Visit EDNA to access fabulous resources: EDNA
A-Z of Web20 sites to visit: A-Z of Ideas
Virtual World sites: itvision
Creative tools: Great Web20 links
Crossword maker: Crosswords
Google Littrip: http://www.googlelittrips.org/
Play/Film script: http://celtx.com/
Celestia: students explore the universe in three dimensions - travel throughout the solar system to any of over 100,000 stars…http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Fakebook: http://classtools.net/fb/home/page
Youtube: http://saveyoutube.com/
Grammar Skills: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
Grammar Monster: http://www.grammar-monster.com/index.html
Cyber Grammar: http://www.cybergrammar.co.uk/index.php
Visuword: http://www.visuwords.com/ - a beautiful online thesaurus to find more effective synonyms
Webquests: http://www.schools.ash.org.au/paa2/
* Bookdrum: This amazing site provides contextual maps, information and photographs for the texts it features: Bookdrum
Global education: Global Education idea
Great site for global teaching resources: Global Dimension
Global Education: Global education - ways to connect your students globally.
Hash tags for education - http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/09/the-comprehensive-dictionary-of.html
Creating games to teach - Super Teaching Tools
Excellent tools
Approaches to teaching: Geoff Petty
Analysing photographs: Analysing photographs
Fabulous film resources! The Film Space
Great film clip by a student on film techniques Film Techniques

Google Apps
Best Apps for Schools
http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/iPadApps-DigitalLearningFarm.jpg
Ipads in the classroom:Links and ideas

Gaming: